The new Laser machine for cutting, engraving and marking arrived promptly this morning at 6:30 am and by 7:30 it was being lifted into our Laser shop on the second floor. With a 9 ft bed, this one will accommodate larger parts than our other one. The riggers make it look soooo easy!
It is always amazing to me to watch riggers move big items.... like you said RH, they make it look so very easy!!
That's my son in law in the red shirt! I just noticed he was in the shot. He heads up two divisions in the company and this machine is for him.
Ha! I just got off a forklift myself. one of many big tools I like working with. And yes, it is always fun to watch a pro use heavy equipment.
Watching Riggers of any type is a good way to see how work gets done. I for one always enjoyed watching the riggers/longshoremen load or unload a freighter in the old fashion way of starting with the item to be shipped on the dock. Rig it for loading, place it in the hold of freighter and then commence to build it into the ship. This is done mostly with timbers, chain saws, wedges, sledge hammers and large spikes. The only other "dance" of equipment, that comes close in skill set, is to see the old booms and winches at work as they move cargo across more than one ship to its final destination, be it the freighter on the out board of a nest or on the dock for its final location. Loading on a flat bed is a minor deal after watching such skills of 4 or 5 operators at work.
Lol, you should have seen a 12' wide X 53' high rolling steel fire door and operator installed. We did two of them on the same job. They don't make lifts for that type of work.
We had riggers install these (5) 2.5 megawatt Kohler diesel generators and associated mechanical equipment into a data center project a couple of years ago. They did an amazing job sliding each of these puppies into the generator bays on roller systems.... the door's on each side of the unit had about an 1 1/2" for clearance.
Riggers come from all ilks.. loggers included. But not just logging exceeds in this task, vendors in assorted but many other avenues do mighty fine moves. I have watched a few riggers due logging, loads for helo operations... I am sure that @Cruisin Sloth could chime in on that. I watch almost daily, riggers prep loads for lifts to high-rise construction, and I often hire riggers to move heavy loads such as genies into tricky positions, heavy UPS systems and other types of loads we will not want to screw with.
Yes KAS I did say loggers, they work in the logging trade, bringing log's to the mill... where the logs/wood becomes lumber.
and once upon a time, lumber became boats, something a little more familiar to Kas - although wood boats may be beyond his recollection
I've had the privilege of watching true professional rigging contractors working with big and small stuff. Biggest, heaviest item was an 1100 ton reactor vessel being placed thru an opening with about an inch of radial clearance. The whole operation was over in less than four hours, from horizontal on a transporter to vertical and setting on the foundation within a quarter inch of the planned spot.